"MILLIONAIRES' ROW."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 2

"MILLIONAIRES' ROW."

; FIATS AT £5000 A YEAR. :• .III: "Millionaires' Eow," Xow York, at the corner of Fifth Avenue ' and 81st " Street, there is now in process ;of creation a 'House of Residential- Apartments" 'which, its builders confidently . claim, will eclipse in magnificence and • luxury the most gorgeous tints existing in. any other city in the world. •It will contain twelve "apartment' residenees" —Anglice fiats—which wilt bo rented at each per annum. Hitherto ■ New Yorkers have been unable to obtain Hats costing more than ,£3G00,-. a year; - but that they arc:willing to pay.more is . proved by the fact thac,even before, their construction several of these <£5000 Hats" • - have-been taken oh leases of from five to ten years. . ' The diagrams prepared from the olaiia - of the famous architects, Messrs. Jl'Kim, Meade, and White, show that the tenant of one of. the new. fiats will have eighteen I. rooms, in addition to'' numerous - bath- ;. rooms, cupboards, cellars, and attic conveniences. AH the luxury characteristic of the palaces of the ultra rich, in Fifth Avenue w i:- in these apartments, which will each be decorated according, fto the tastes and wishes of the : occu- * pants.. . ' •.There will be; first of all, four prills' v '< cipal dining-room,'living-' room, and gallery-covering a total" floor - • space of 2500 square feet, and so construct- ; . Ed that they can be converted at -will into ' JjJ* e immense'hall for - reception purposed! Ihese Tooms will "contain huge ftreplacesJ where log fires may be enjoyed. » , The sleeping apartments will fitted! with bathroms and;with cupboards, many? of which will bo as .large as an tearoom. The - cupboards, will be. ilium-; mated automatically when their, uoojs are opened. The architects have^ralwii'extra '• precautions ■to make the only fireproof but also, sound proof. The : heating, ventilating, and plumbing; systems have beenMegigiied by the foremost engineers in the'couiitry. Each apartment w'ill have in the basement a large' ' laundry,establishment with sneeial wasn- ' ing and-ironing rooms, the machinery of<■ which .will be run by electricity. ...

- : THE. EMERGENCY.' LIFT. ..There will.be.wiae vaults and cold) storage rooms and a modern incinerating plant for the' destruction of. garbage, aswell as; an ice" manufacturing "plant, so ■" that each kitchen will have a plentiful' 'supply, of ice always at liaiid. _ The lifts are, being arranged on a most ■ 'elaborate plan." Ifl'adtfition to the ordin-. arv lifts, there will.be an emergency onei 1 which may be bespoken by any tenant I giving. a 1 (dinner party and desiring that . his guests may to His flat without- delay. ■ Two stories beneath the ground's gigantic power plant will be in- >. stalled for the .supply of heat aid lignc-; I to the flats, which will be cleaned once a week with vacuuth cleaners and a special staff of window polishers.... . Everything, in fact, will be done, to rob i. the servant problem of its complexities. The .management- undertakes to close or open an apartment for- the tenant at any time,- so that ho can be free to leave or . return whenever he chooses independently of ..his own servants.. , . Finally, there will be on the Toof squash ' • racquets and tennis courts.. The "House of, Apartment Hesidences"- / —New Yorkers, have long discarded ,the ; use of the word "flat" as undignified—' '■ is'being ; built on a site wWch cost .£200,000. . . Constructed of granite arid limestone, it will be in keeping with the finest palaces ill millionaires' Row, and is expected to * hasten the exodus of wealthy people from their own homes'into, "flats," where they -.- can enjoy ,all the luxuries without .any of' the inconveniences of modern-civilisation. —'Daily' Mail." , •